The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1887-07-08
SOUTHERN eLEANINGs.

There is negro preacher at Crawford,
Ga, who has no legs, being hauled
around town in wagon by two goats.
A Texas farmer says that three good /
bulldogs roaming the yard at night will |
do more to keep a man honest than all the |
talking in the world.
Indian river, Florida, is said to be the |
straightest in the world A straight line |
can be drawn through it for seventy hve !
miles without touching shore.
A man at Americus, Ga, went to bed
thinking so intently OF mulberry tree
that he was to transplant in the morning
that he gotup in his sleep and transplated
the tree and went back to bed without
waking up.
The hotel at Cages Springs, William
son County, Tenn, was burned a few days
ago. There were large number OF
guests in the building, but all escaped
uuinjured The hotel was owned by
Stafford a. Daniel, and the loss is Sl5, OJO;
covered by insurance.
James Hoskins, of Owensboro, KY,
1 took ten cents worth of morphine few
| days since at a single dozs. As soon as 1T
| was discovered that he had taken the
poison DR.. c. H. Todd was sent for, and
| by iudicious employment of antidotes MS
/ life was saved.
/ Hope Croft. a ten-ve ar-old boy, Is under
arrest al Quitman, Ca, for having set fire
| to two school buildings which were
burned, because he did not want to attend
| school He was caught while trying TO
fire a third building, which had been
secured to conduct the school in
The West Tennessee colored clhzens
will hold their fair this year at Jackson
in October.
A two-mor ths-old calf in o W en- County,
KY, weighs 275 pounds.
Henry Georges land theories are hav
ing a great spread in Louisiana seven
teen Land and Labor clubs have been or
ganized in New Orleans
Anti-treating societies are being organ :
lied in various Georgia cities, and already
embrace mum erous and influential NOM
bership.
The schooner James B. Jordan went
ashore on Western Dry Rocks, near Key
West, Fla, a few days ago. She was
loaded with railroad iron from Perth Am
by, N j. for Galveston, Tex
The grand jury at Jackson, Miss, re
l turned two indictments against Jones ).
Hamilton and l. N. Gubanks, charging
them separately with the murder OF
Roderick Dhu Gambrell.
Joe Mulhatton, who is more or less
known to fame one of the great hars
I of the country, is now living in Louis
I | vile, XIV. He never smokes nor drinks
: | and is extremely generous with M
. money. He is successful drummer. Ht
will work a month on some startling yarT
: not half a column in length, and ms sto-
= ries have always had wide circulation II
the newspapers.
General J. e. B. Stuart. who was killed
: in a desperate cavalry fight at yellow
: Tavern near Richmond. Va, in 1854, is tO
~ have a monument. commission, o
= which Governor Lee, of Virginia, is chair
man, has been formed, and steps will o.
taken to erect such monument as WI
- be worthy of one Of his prowess.
- Tom King, coIored, shot and nstanti
N killed his wife. at Asheville, n. c., few
- DAYS ago. He claims itwas accidental. ID
q SAYS he was going hunting, and the gu
~ ~ went off. King was arrested and take
- before magistrate IN much olSCFess au
- weeping bitterly.
m Ambrose Lake, colored, was shot an
fatally wounded near Shelbyville, Tenn
" a few days since, by William Iempl
u After Lake had assaulted Tempe wit
20 stones, Temple returned home, and, s.
u 10 curing a gun, renewed the dIfhculty an
10 fred upon the negro. Temple had n
, been arrested.
~ Ed. TurIey and Thos. FOgle, the latt'
~ ~ a prominent citizen of Rockport, KY, b
On came involved in quarrel at that place,
10 few davs since, over business matte
- Turley seized q heavy chair and broke
~ to pieces over Fogle's head, cutting q
~ scalp badly and fracturing his skull /
- was thought to be beyond relief, and Iu
y lev is in Gus stody to await the result OF I
~ injuries.
at Northern capitalists are rapidly a
'Ve uulring all the pine lands in Southe
- Alabama that are still owned by the Go
III ernment. and that can be had for 81. %
49,, acre Elihu and William jackson,
TN MARYLAND, have just purchased 44O
les acres of finely mbered land in one ira
T., m Covington County, and 10000 acr
az were bought by another party about
me month ago -.
. R. 7. Cohen, we'll known trans
tes agent of Danvi ls, Va, was shot a
no killed a few nights ago by Charles Sayl
Three other young men have been
rested as accessories, and the homlc
has created much excitement 1t is s
that the shooting grew out Of an affair
III which young woman was concern
- and Saylor was heard to saw that he wo'
w w kill Cohen before morning. Meet
Inc Cohen at a later hour on the street
rem opeued ire on him and shot him to dea
The Chief of Police of Nashville, Ter
oy, received telegram few days ago
ma | nouncinp the arrest in East St Louis,
IA of Ben BRAY, colored, who shot and xii
, Of Joseph Friz zell, and dangerously wount
on James Booker, also colOred, in Nashv
on the 18th inst. Chief Kerrigan T.
'ue' praphed the East St. Louis authorities
IN hold Brav until an officer would arr
$ Oh He ubsequently learned that Bray
made a full confession, and that he
D nd : fused TO return TO 4CuNSSSgC HAoAANN
- reouisition WhereupOn Detective z
cen left for Illinois. Bray is desp
character, and two years ago, aided
at his brother, Nose Bray, severely cut
ora, other negroes. The shooting Of Friz
Uas. was without provocation.
: 2d Jack billiard. q car-cOupler, was but
to death at Columbia, S. C., few d
ago bv Scott Logan, fireman on a sw
NeW engine, in the Richmond q Danville r
Ior road ward in Columbia. Both were
proes The two men quarrelled aboU
hoa woman. and after few blows had
- uassed they clinched, when Dill
punt 80 +ba asida If a freiGht
as and held him there at arms len
Logan finally recovered his wind,
are catching his antagonist by the ears bu
- him several times between the eyes '
T. terrible force, producing concussion
- the brain.
reaO yellow fever don't seem to spread.
Mrs S A. Gordon. widow OF Rev. r
has Gordon and step mother Of Governor J
~ B Gordon, Of Georgia, died at the
sf+l, 3ence of her grandson, Mr.. W. T Qua
:, near Dexter, Ala, recently She
eighty years Of age and had been n
.,1o's lsue Der Of the Baptist Church for over
'usy years.
william Fisher, a resident of the so
Seed eastern part Of Montgomery County,T
tba recently eloped with Miss Judy NJ
the mac Jne slslst % ~ - . -.
~ steps to trace their movements. Fish
Uns thirty-two years old, while Miss Niece
terly 80. : at5atsen
- A race riot near Bastrop, La, rece'
~" resulted in the death Of eight persons
A Florida court the other day acq u
a man tried for breaking into car 10
very ridiculous reason that while there
aged law against breaking into house OF
rly a sci. there is none against breaking i